It’s
1888, and after her mother’s sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her
grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at
Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds she has a passion for helping the abused and
sickly women there. But within days, patients begin turning up murdered at the
hands of Jack the Ripper. As more women are murdered, Abbie realizes that she
and the Ripper share a strange connection: she has visions showing the Ripper
luring his future victims to their deaths—moments before he turns his knife
upon them. Young Adult.

Maya
Delaney’s pawprint birthmark is the sign of what she truly is—a skin-walker.
She can run faster, climb higher, and see better than nearly anyone else. Now,
Maya and her friends have been forced to flee from their homes during a forest
fire they suspect was deliberately set. Then they’re kidnapped, and after a
chilling helicopter crash, they find themselves in the Vancouver Island
wilderness with nothing but their extraordinary abilities to help them get back
home. Young Adult.

When
an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In
the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost
their grip on power. Against this backdrop, with a conflicted U.S. president
struggling to make momentous decisions in Seattle and a madman fomenting
rebellion in Texas, three women are fighting their own battles—for survival,
justice, and revenge.Three women in three corners of a world plunged into
electrifying chaos. Nation-states struggling for their survival. Immigrants
struggling for new lives. In this conclusion to the series begun in Without
Warningand After America,
Birmingham offers an intense adventure that races from the halls of power to
shattered streets to gleaming new cities, as humanity struggles to grasp its
better angels—and purge its worst demons. U.S. release.

Mirabelle’s past is
shrouded in secrecy, from her parents’ tragic deaths to her guardians’
half-truths about why she can’t return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage.
Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth
birthday—and discovers a world she never could have imagined.In Beau Rivage, nothing is
what it seems—the strangely pale girl with a morbid interest in apples, the
obnoxious playboy who’s a beast to everyone he meets, and the chivalrous guy
who has a thing for damsels in distress. Here, fairy tales come to life, curses
are awakened, and ancient stories are played out again and again.But fairy tales aren’t pretty things, and they don’t
always end in happily ever after. Young Adult.

This sequel to A.M. Dellamonica’s Sunburst Award-winning
contemporary fantasy Indigo Springs starts in the small town in Oregon where Astrid Lethewood
discovered an underground river of blue liquid—Vitagua—that is pure magic.
Everything it touches is changed. The secret is out—and the world will never be
the same. Astrid’s best friend, Sahara, has been corrupted by the blue magic,
and now leads a cult that seeks to rule the world. Astrid, on the other hand,
tries to heal the world. Conflicting ambitions, star-crossed lovers, and those
who fear and hate magic combine in a terrible conflagration, pitting friend
against friend, magic against magic, and the power of nations against a small
band of zealots, with the fate of the world at stake.

For
star-crossed lovers Nimira and Erris, there can be no happily ever after until
Erris is freed from the clockwork form in which his soul is trapped. They go in
search of the sorcerer Ordorio Valdana, hoping he will know how to grant Erris
real life again. When they learn that Valdana has mysteriously vanished, it’s
not long before Nimira decides to take matters into her own hands—and begins to
study the sorcerer’s spell books in secret. Yet even as she begins to
understand the power and limitations of sorcery, it becomes clear that freeing
Erris will bring danger—if not out-and-out war—in the faerie world. Young
Adult.

Before
the Kollaps, Detective Josef Horkai was the one they called in whenever an
investigation hit a wall. He’s still pretty certain he’s the best, even if
there are very few other people still alive to compete with, even if the rules
of the game have changed. Only problem is, he’s been exposed to something
that’s slowly killing him. His hair has fallen out, his teeth are all but gone,
his legs are already all but useless, and he can feel the feeling slowly
seeping out of his fingers. Which is why they’ve kept him frozen, held in
suspended animation until they figure out what’s wrong with him. Only he can
feel time oozing slowly past, has a vague sense of the world going on without
him. And then suddenly, someone claiming to be a friend thaws him out, tells
him he’s needed. Something crucial has been stolen—though with the pain in his
head it’s hard for him to keep straight what and why. He’s got to get it back
or something bad—what was it again?—is going to happen. And he’s got to get it
back so they can freeze him again before his own time runs out.

Revolution
has broken out in the Forsaken Isles. The islanders have risen up to drive out
the Inning Empire, but still they have no one to unite them. Only an Ison can
do that—a leader whose heart has been cleansed by the curing of dhota-nur. The
power to create an Ison lies in the hands of three people, and none of them are
heroes. Spaeth has the ancient Lashnura heritage, but does she have the
stature? Harg has the military genius, but he utterly rejects the price of
dhota-nur. And Nathaway, the Inning outsider, finds himself unexpectedly
holding the key to the future of the Isles. Ison of the Isles continues the
story started in Isles of the Forsaken.

Kylie Galen wants the truth so badly she can taste it. The truth
about who her real family is, the truth about which boy she’s meant to be
with—and the truth about what her emerging powers mean. But she’s about to
discover that some secrets can change your life forever…and not always for the
better. Just when she and Lucas are finally getting close, she learns that his
pack has forbidden them from being together. And an amnesia-stricken ghost is
haunting her. As Kylie races to
unravel the mystery and protect those she loves, she finally unlocks the truth
about her supernatural identity, which is far different than she ever imagined.
Young Adult.

It’s
summer in the city and most vampires are drunk on the blood-based intoxicant
Faust. The mayor has tied his political fortunes to legalizing the brew, but
Zephyr Hollis has dedicated herself to the cause of Faust prohibition—at least
when she isn’t knocking back sidecars in speakeasies.But the game
changes when dozens of vampires end up in the city morgue after drinking Faust.
Are they succumbing to natural causes, or have they been deliberately poisoned?
When an anonymous tip convinces the police of her guilt, Zephyr has to save her
reputation, her freedom and possibly her life. Someone is after her blood—and
this time it isn’t a vampire.

Wizard
Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing than sniffing out
supernatural bad guys. DJ’s boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard
tasked with protecting the city from the preternatural Beyond. Then Hurricane Katrina
hammers New Orleans’ fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood
waters. While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between
the modern city and the Beyond crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are
roaming the Big Easy, a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering the
soldiers sent to help the city recover, and Gerald St. Simon is missing. The
wizards’ Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ’s new partner,
and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank. The search for
Gerry and for the killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that
loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty
mixed with love creates one bitter roux. First in a new series.

Glamour in Glass continues
following the lives of beloved Milk and
Honey characters Jane and Vincent as, in the tumultuous months after
Napoleon abdicates his throne, they go to France for their honeymoon. While
there, the deposed emperor escapes his exile in Elba, throwing the continent
into turmoil. With no easy way back to England, they struggle to escape.Left with no outward salvation, Jane is left to overcome
her own delicate circumstances and use her glamour to rescue her husband from
prison…and hopefully prevent her newly built marriage from getting stranded on
the shoals of another country's war.

When
Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage
in Iran, the Iranian government asks them to help find six nuclear bombs
planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will lead Joe and Echo Team
into hidden vaults of forbidden knowledge, mass-murder, betrayal, and a
brotherhood of genetically engineered killers with a thirst for blood.
Accompanied by the beautiful assassin called Violin, Joe follows a series of
clues to find the Book of Shadows, which contains a horrifying truth that
threatens to shatter his entire worldview. They say the truth will set you
free. Not this time. The secrets of the Assassin’s Code will set the world
ablaze.

It’s 1870, and a
young woman named Odile is fighting to survive on the blood-soaked streets of
Paris. Luckily, Odile has an advantage and a bizarre birthright. She is
descended from the Cagots, a much-despised race whose women were reputed to be
witches. Were they, in fact? This is the question Odile must answer—about her
ancestors and herself—while she uses her talents to help a young Doctor Jekyll,
who seems to be abusing the salts that she gave him in a most disconcerting
way. Young Adult.

Lost Everything is the story of a man who takes a boat trip up
the Susquehanna River, through a version of America that’s been torn apart by a
mysterious war, in order to find and rescue his lost wife and son. Slattery’s
prose moves seamlessly between present and past, action and memory. With Lost Everything, he celebrates the
resilience and ingenuity of the American spirit.

When
the night began, Nora had two best friends and an embarrassingly storybook one
true love. When it ended, she had nothing but blood on her hands and an echoing
scream that stopped only when the tranquilizers pierced her veins and left her
in the merciful dark.But the next
morning, it was all still true: Chris was dead. His girlfriend Adriane, Nora’s
best friend, was catatonic. And Max, Nora’s Prince Charming, was gone. He was
also—according to the police, according to her parents, according to everyone—a
murderer.Desperate to prove his innocence, Nora follows the
trail of blood to the ancient streets of Prague, where she is drawn into a dark
web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all driven by a mad desire to
possess something that might not even exist. U.S. release. Young Adult.

Meet Westlake Soul, a twenty-three-year-old former surfing
champion. A loving son and brother. But if you think he’s just a regular dude,
think again; Westlake is in a permanent vegetative state. He can’t move, has no
response to stimuli, and can only communicate with Hub, the faithful family
dog. And like all superheroes, Westlake has an archenemy: Dr. Quietus—a
nightmarish embodiment of Death itself. Westlake dreams of a normal life of
surfing and loving again. But time is running out; Dr. Quietus is getting
closer, and stronger. Can Westlake use his superbrain to recover... to slip his
enemy’s cold embrace before it’s too late?

It is the year 2129, and fame is all that matters. Susan and her friends are celebutantes. Their lives
are powered by media awareness, fed by engineered meals, and underscored by
cynicism. Everyone has a rating; the more viewers who ID you, the better. So
Susan and her almost-boyfriend Derlock cook up a surefire plan: the nine of
them will visit a Mars-bound spaceship and stow away. Their survival will be a
media sensation, boosting their ratings across the globe. There’s only one
problem: Derlock is a sociopath. Young Adult.

After Meredith’s girlfriend commits suicide, she abandons art
school and goes home to Washington, D.C., intending to kill herself. But a
chance street encounter leads her to create a painting that acts as a magical
passage through which the young, 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud
emerges, and both their lives are changed. Young Adult.

Eve,
a runaway, finds a new job at a coffee shop on the outskirts of Tuscon. When
she’s approached by two wealthy teens who claim she bears an uncanny
resemblance to their missing cousin Aurora, her life takes a turn for the dark
and mysterious. Young Adult.

As always, international. Four entries possible. One for comment, one for blog follow, one for Twitter follow @Suzanne_Johnson, and one for Tweet or Retweet of the contest....GO!

Ha! I already have your book, well at least it's on the way, so i'm going to pick The Calling, by Kelley Armstrong.I follow this blog by email: carlscott(at)prodigy(dot)net(dot)mxI follow on twitter as well: @carlrscottI tweeted about the giveaway: https://twitter.com/#!/carlrscott/status/189443722855989248That's my 4 entries. Happy release week!

Thanks for all the good wishes, guys! I'll be posting pics tomorrow from my adventures in Plaquemines Parish today, doing some fact-checking for book two in my series, River Road. And maybe giving away some PRALINES.

Do you even need to ask? I 'd love to win Royal Street! Can't wait to read it)+1 comment+1 GFC follower as Sofija Kapranova+1 twitter follower as @soni_sonik+1 tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/soni_sonik/status/189628575719239680

I'd like to have The Book of Blood and Shadow. I didn't really care for the cover but the excerpt sounds really good for YA. I guess you should never judge a book by its cover ;) Thanks+1 comment+1 gfc follow as Tanyaw1224+1 twitter as Tanya1224+1 tweeted athttps://twitter.com/#!/Tanya1224/status/189781990986362880Tanyaw1224(at)yahoo(dot)com

Since my copy of Royal Street is on my Kindle, waiting patiently for me to get off work, I suppose I need to pick another title... ;)

I am interested in Glamour in Glass. The buzz about both this and the first Mary Robinette Kowal book have been very positive, so I think it would be a good 'un. (Also, on Scalzi's Whatever blog, Mary posted her "Big Idea", and says this one can be read alone.)

Congrats on your release day, Suzanne! And thanks, as always, for giving us these giveaway chances...